Lucy Stone was one of the most famous leaders for
women's right in the United States.

Lucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818 in West
Brookfield, Massachusetts. At the age of sixteen she had a low
paying job as a teacher to earn money to go to college. She would
get up at 2:00 am and studied before going work. She attended
Quaboag Seminary in Warren. She learned two different languages,
Hebrew and Greek.

After college she became a lecturer for William
Lloyd Garrison's American Antislavery Society. In 1850, Lucy
Stone led a call for a national convention on women's right.

Lucy Stone married Henry Blackwell in 1855. She
also had a daughter named Alice Stone Blackwell.

She was one of the first women to speak against
women's not having the right to vote in the United States. Lucy
Stone died around 1893.